I run a YouTube channel about character design and collecting — and about why a figurine can sometimes mean more than it seems.
For artists and designers: practical signposts – how a character becomes an object, why some choices last for years while others burn out in a season.
For artists and designers: practical signposts – how a character becomes an object, why some choices last for years while others burn out in a season.
For collectors: a language for taste – how to choose more consciously, not out of inertia or hype.
And if you simply enjoy strange, warm, honest stories – consider this your pass into a world where objects can speak.
And if you simply enjoy strange, warm, honest stories – consider this your pass into a world where objects can speak.
Pop Mart is not just a success story. It's the story of how a retail platform found the language of art toys, put it on a conveyor belt, and changed the collectible toy market forever.
The Inspector with a cloud for a head was created by illustrator Jonathan Edwards, shaped by the punk graphics of Deadline magazine in the 1990s. His line is rough, ironic, full of character — a direct inheritance from the British graphic school.
What if there's another Moscow alongside the real one — a celestial one, built by birds? The story of the Birds-of-Moscow project: how a 2016 sketch became a decade-long journey, from early drawings to a gallery installation.
The pilot episode of Center of Gravity — a long conversation about character design, artistic practice, and creative production.
Observer by Mars-1 and STRANGEco — a 2005 figure from the golden age of designer toys.
The story of Rat Fink — the ugly green rat that became a symbol of American custom culture and found a second life in Japan.
The story of Haircut Devil by Tokyo duo Gumliens. How a line of «cute» minimalist characters made as one-off resin art pieces led to abstract soft vinyl kaiju.
Four cities, dozens of names, hundreds of collaborations — the story of how designer toys, street art, music, and Japanese sofubi culture weave together into the fabric of contemporary visual culture.
2005. We bring designer toys to Russia — something nobody here was waiting for. That's how Lunohod-1 was born. A store in form, a cultural mission in fact.
A story about how an encounter with the inexplicable becomes a creative method.
Artist Carrie Chau created this figure in 2007. But she didn't know then that this image would change her entire life. A story about creativity that knows more than its creator.
Why Japanese artist T9G hides his monsters behind masks — and how the ugly-cute aesthetic turns a toy into art.
Sometimes a few blurry photographs are enough to create a legend. The story of the Biorobot Collie project — an example of how fiction wearing the mask of a document becomes myth.
The Dots figure connects Japanese collectible toy culture, mid-century design, and the legacy of the Bandai brand.
Ten styles of designer toys — and many ways to find yourself. I talk about how to recognize what resonates with you specifically, and how to turn that into your own unique voice — in your creative work, your collection, and your style.
Why is everyone talking about Labubu? And why it's not just «some plush thing.»
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